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Manage book 0 page s. A complete Slackware setup on USB image. Restoring a USB stick to its original state. Please note that starting with Slackware You can find the USB bootable image file called usbboot.
Also, Slackware contains modified versions of my Wiki pages in that same directory. The remainder of this Wiki article is basically preserved here as a technical reference, but you are no longer required to follow all the instructions below. Of course, when you visit other places, such a server is not always available So, I went on, and turned to USB sticks, also known as pen drives or thumb drives. So, how does one create this small image file, and how is it used?
First, we calculate the sizes of the files we are going to copy into the USB image the initrd. Create a DOS formatted image file: mkfs. This concludes the steps needed to create our image file!
Be careful about the device name for your USB stick! The above dd command will wipe out any existing data on the device, so you had better be sure that it is not the SATA hard disk you're targeting! After writing the usbboot. To contain all the packages that make a full Slackware install you'll need a USB stick that is larger than 1GB … The reason for needing two partitions is that our bootloader syslinux requires the filesystem on which it is installed to be FAT Take care about which device actually is your USB stick!!!
Article Discussion Show pagesource Old revisions. Log In. Navigation Main Page. Tutorials for unetbootin are everywhere. This was tested using the Slackware Installing Slackware using a USB flash drive is very easy. Category : Tutorials. Once your system is up to date and you have created your first user, you may want to configure your system to boot into X by default, with a graphical login instead of a console login.
If X11 starts and you end up at a desktop, you're probably good to go. Change the following line:. Save, and on your next reboot the system will boot into a nice graphical login. To select or switch between available desktop environments run xwmconfig as root. In other words: out of the box, Slackware64 is not able to run or compile bit program binaries. Luckily, this is simple to fix. Author's note : I do own the rights for these articles, so I've decided to link to them here.
Feel free to cannibalize them as you wish, e. To help you do this, I've included all the original files that were used in the making of these articles: original text in ODT format as well as all the screenshots in PNG format. Check out the links below the list. Enjoy the Holiday season! Welcome to the Slackware Documentation Project. Book Creator Add this page to your book. Book Creator Remove this page from your book.
Manage book 0 page s. Table of Contents Slackware installation. Slackware To select a different keyboard map, please enter 1 now. To continue using the US map, just hit enter. Welcome to the Slackware Linux installation disk!
It is also recommended that you create a swap partition type 'Linux swap' prior to installation. For more information, run 'setup' and read the help file.
You may now login as 'root'. Usually partitioning a hard disk process is composed of these steps: Running the desired partitioning tool on the target HDD. Also, you should verify that no DHCP server on your network is set to assign that same address out as a part of its DHCP pool, or you may encounter address conflicts.
Netmask: the subnet mask for your network; often Gateway Address: the address of the gateway server providing internet access to your network. On small networks, this will probably be provided by your ISP while on larger networks you may use an internal server which handles the traffic. In other words, this may be an internal address like Nameserver: most likely, you'll want to utilize DNS ; in this initial setup, provide your primary domain name server.
Change the following line: Default runlevel. Do not set to 0 or 6 idinitdefault: To be this: Default runlevel. Slackware ISO files. Part 1, ZIP archive 3. Part 2, ZIP archive 0. Part 3, ZIP archive 0. Part 4, ZIP archive 1. Log In. Navigation Main Page. Project Charter. Site News. Table of Contents. In Other Languages Translations of this page?
Thanks for the write up, I have been unable to boot Slackware off a usb stick, but I am about to try your script. Appreciate you. In my using ubuntu I do no run Ubuntu so I do not know what it expects. The script is only tested on Slackware. Also, sathish and ajay, could you please try running this script instead? No need for your own. Works fine on a thinkpad X without DVD, is perfect. Thank you very much. I created the USB key into an old thinkpad T Thanks for the script Eric.
Pingback: Installing slackware Pingback: Questions on installing from USB stick. Pingback: slackware: freshly made image won't boot. Making the usb stick works fine: sh usbimg2disk.
I set usb boot as highest priority in the bios and checked if the boot flag was set on the usb partition. The error rsync: command not found is pretty self explanatory though. I obtained the install dvd. As mentioned in the help file for the script, a Slackware file tree is necessary to create a fully functional usb installer.
The source code is not required at all. Any idea what I might need to do? Alternatively you could try writing the Slackware I did look at the script and thought maybe p should be a q but then I get a failure at the same line with t as the invalid option.
Your mktemp is not the one used on a Slackware computer. Pingback: Slack Hi Ivelin, I can not comment on that, because the amount of information you supply is simply not enough. After running the script downloaded from the last link in this post a get the mentioned error: sh usbimg2disk. Ivelin, try what happens if you use the modified version of this script which is shipped with Slackware Afterwards, read that logfile and report what you find there. The logfile will reveal that.
I tried using the usbimg2disk. The first was self inflicted, but I will mention it since Ivelin had the same problem. EFI — elilo. I built a PC, and I am trying to use the usbimg2disk.
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